Firebug

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.5X.0b4. It passes all of our tests on Firefox 3.5 and 3.6b4pre. Two case fail on FF 3.7; one is a changed error message, one looks like a change in Firefox. (We’re only aiming for 3.5 and 3.6 for now). Next we aim to improve the quality by identifying important bugs from among [...]

gietfirebug.com has Firebug 1.5b3. This is 1.5b2 with a couple of fixes. It passes all tests on Firefox 3.6b2 and does not crash in Firefox 3.7 nightly. Two tests fail in Firefox 3.7. One is a change in an error message; the other is some mystery message we need to ask mozilla platform folks about. Issue [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.5b2. It fails two tests on FF 3.6, one extra newline you can’t see in the UI anyway and one of the the network breakpoint tests that we are looking into. We could not test on Firefox 3.7 because of Bug 522590. Ok, not a perfect story for b2, but we have [...]

Jan “Honza” Odvarko and I have submitted “Dynamic and Graphical Web Page Breakpoints” on the 1.5 breakpoints to WWW 2010.  It motivates the various breakpoints, describes the user experience and the implementation, then relates this breakpoint work ... [More] to academic papers. If you want the Cliff Notes version, we also have a demo page. And of course [...] [Less]

The popular dojo toolkit has an FAQ entry about Firebug,which is wildly out of date. It talks about eval() debugging as it was back in 2007. Since Firebug 1.2 we’ve had support for the dojo loader, and as far as I know it works well. Since the problem reported in the FAQ was the first [...]

Jan “Honza” Odvarko release our first version of “eventbug”, a Firebug extension to add support for inspecting event listeners. Event panel shows all event types with handlers on the page, click the event type name open to see the elements and handlers Side panels show the target list, element bound the the handler, and the handler source [...]

Rob ‘robcee’ Campbell arranged for getfirebug.com to have its own wiki and Hernán Rodríguez Colmeiro has started it up with a lot of great content. Check it out, help out. Don’t be shy: if you know just a little about Firebug, your perspective is valuable for the person who may know less. jjb Please followup in the newsgroup.

Ok, our work on features for Firebug 1.5b1 is complete!  We pass all of our tests on Firefox 3.5.4; one test fails on Firefox 3.6b and Firefox 3.7a. That test covers one of our new breakpoint features and we’ll need to work with Firefox team to fix it. Special Thanks! to Mike Sabine Radcliffe for new [...]

getfirebug.com has Chromebug 1.5a4. Chromebug is the Firebug code adapted for XUL applications. It is the debugger that Firebug developers use to develop Firebug.  Note: you must install Firebug 1.5 as well as the Chromebug XPI. . If you have looked any previous released version of Chromebug you will see a lot of changes. Some of [...]

getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.5X.0a26, the last alpha release of Firebug 1.5. It passes all of our tests on Firefox 3.5.4 and Firefox 3.6b1 as of Oct 9. (On FF 3.7 we’re not so good, but we found several bugs in Firefox and Firebug). Our work on adding features is done and our next release will be [...]